Senior Systems Engineer, Database Administration

3 days ago

Bethesda, United States Starcom consulting limited Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

JOB SUMMARY

Required:
  • Undergraduate degree in an engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent experience/certification
  • 7+ years' experience in technology infrastructure application delivery (operations) that includes:
  • 5+ years of experience with database platforms along with their high availability design implementations (listed in priority order):
  • RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 LUW, MySQL, Postgres,
  • NoSQL: DocumentDB, Couchbase, Cassandra, Cockroach
  • Cloud Native DBaaS (e.g., AWS RDS)
  • ElasticCache (Redis)
  • 3+ years of experience in Agile/DevOps methodologies
  • 3+ years with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, ACK, or OpenShift)
  • 3+ years of experience with cloud technology and its concepts (AWS, Azure, and/or Alibaba) including networking, security, and IAM
  • 3+ years' Infrastructure and Configuration Management-as-Code Services
  • Terraform Enterprise, Vault Enterprise
  • Ansible or Ansible Tower
  • 3+ years of experience with infrastructure automation through scripting with Python, Ruby, PowerShell, and/or UNIX scripting languages.
  • Networking fundamentals
  • Ability to independently research and recommend tools, software, applications, and systems for attaining best-in-class IT technology across the enterprise.
  • Ability to drive an idea or concept to an actual solution with significant autonomy.
  • Ability to design highly resilient systems that support 99.9% uptime.
  • Ability to create constructive relationships, influence, and communicate (to project team, IT management, and non-technical staff).

Preferred:
  • Graduate Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
  • Experience with observability tooling: Dynatrace APM Grail, Splunk, CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs
  • Experience with security tool integration and methods (e.g., SSO, MFA, WAM): Vault, Thycotic, Ping Access, PAM/SSSD, Waratek
  • Ransomware protection tools/methods
  • DevOps Tooling: Helm, Harness, Backstage, Jenkins, Aqua
  • Confluent Cloud (Kafka)
  • Experience with some of these middleware products: DataPower, MQSeries, MQ, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache Web, IBM Integration Bus (AppConnect)
  • One or more cloud certifications.
  • ITIL V4 foundation certification.
  • Excellent technical knowledge of current and emerging infrastructure systems and standards.
  • Project planning and management experience.
  • Excellent understanding of change management and testing requirements, techniques, and tools.
  • High availability and disaster recovery strategies and solutions.

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
  • Serve as one of the department's database platform technology SME's.
  • Modernizing legacy IT systems
  • Produce Infrastructure as Code
  • Provide solutions to lift and shift legacy solutions into the cloud
  • Provide solutions to transform legacy solutions into cloud native solutions.
  • Provides technical expertise, oversight, standardization, and validation of the effectiveness of hardware and software infrastructure
  • Research, design, and engineer high-performing Infrastructure (as code) components that are standards-based, highly available and secured, delivering the required business functionality.
  • Determines customer requirements and works with sourced resources to develop solutions
  • Educates internal and external users of the technologies to continually improve the knowledge and skill-base of the organization on how best to operate and support the infrastructure services.
  • Provides documents with a focus on how services will be leveraged in the solution architecture.
  • Provides and presents status, analysis and reporting to internal stakeholders, Executive Management and Senior Leadership
  • Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate
  • Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery, operations and continual service improvement processes
  • Develop implementation plans, test plans, and timelines for projects and tasks
  • Participates in the evaluation and selection of technology products.
  • Institutes best practices and ensures proper alignment to projects and major initiatives.
  • Leads analysis of the current environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommends solutions for improvement.
  • Leads analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine the potential impact on existing and planned architectures.

Managing Projects and Priorities
  • Functions as a strategic senior technical expert within the department.
  • Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish work.
  • Champions leaders' vision for product and service delivery.
  • Makes and executes the necessary decisions to keep moving forward toward achievement of goals.
  • Provides direction and assistance to other teams regarding projects.
  • Determines priorities, schedules, plans and necessary resources to promote completion of any projects on schedule.
  • Analyzes information and evaluates results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
  • Reviews vendor proposals and selects appropriate vendor for services/technologies/hardware.
  • Thinks creatively and practically to develop, execute and implement new project plans.
  • Generates and provides accurate and timely results in the form of reports, presentations, etc.
  • Plans, develops, implements, and evaluates the quality of operations.

Delivering on the Needs of Key Stakeholders
  • Understands and meets the needs of key stakeholders.
  • Communicates concepts in a clear and persuasive manner that is easy to understand.
  • Demonstrates an understanding of business priorities.
  • Supports achievement of performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc.

Providing Technical Support and Consultation
  • Provides technical expertise and technical leadership within own and other teams.
  • Provides recommendations to improve the effectiveness of processes and programs.
  • Demonstrates advanced knowledge of job-relevant issues, products, systems, and processes.
  • Demonstrates advanced knowledge of function-specific procedures.
  • Applies knowledge/judgment to achieve business goals.
  • Foresees, identifies and resolves problems.
  • Keeps up-to-date technically and applies new knowledge to job.
  • Performs other reasonable duties as required for this position.

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